Building construction



1. HUNDLEY.

BUILDING co'NsTRucTloN.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, 1919.

1,391,897, Patented Sept. 27, 1921.

Br j ffar/fay 'y JAMES HUNDLEY, `or NoBLEsvILL'E,

BUILDING CN'STRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept, 27, 15521.

Application led kSeptember 5,1919. Serial No. 321,983.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known .that I, JAMEs HUNDLEY, a Citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Noblesville, county of Hamilton, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Building Construction, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to building construc-V tion in general, and more specifically to buildings formed of concrete or other plastic materials, and still more specifically to concrete buildings of the poured type when reinforced with steel or similar materials. A principal object of my invention relates to the method of tying together and supporting such a structure by the use of steel bars or rods, interlocking with steel plates within the walls of said construction. A further object is in the method of warming and of ventilating such a construction by means of ducts or cores formed within the walls and cores of said building. A further object is to provide cores or ducts within the walls or ooi-s of a poured concrete building, and to reinforce said walls and floors by tying said walls with bars of steel or iron through said floors and interlocking them withsteel plates within said walls.

With these and other objects in View, my invention consists essentially of the construction shown in the accompanying drawings which illustrate a preferred vform of my invention, it being understood that such modiication thereof may be employed as legitimately come within the scope of the appended claims. In the drawings Figure 1 1s n a transverse section of a fragmentary portion of a building constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a similar transverse section of a different portion of said building. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the walls of such a building, the roof thereof being removed, Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section of a portion of one of the ioors, Fig. 5 showing a detail of a fragment of one of the rod ends interlocked with one of the wall plates or bars, while Fig. 6 shows a side elevation of Fig. 5. In the drawings inwhich like numerals refer to like parts throughout, the numeral 1 indicates the building in general, 2 being the side walls, 3 one of the floors, and 4 a lower floor of the building, the whole resting on pedestals or abutments 51 Within the walls 2, are a plurality of vertical cores 6 extending throughout the yheight of the wall, these cores being inter-connected if desired by transverse cores 7. Within the walls, in essentialalinement with the ifioors, may be placed plates or bars 8, having a plurality of longitudinal slots 9 therein, through which are passed horizontal rods l0 provided with bent or hooked ends 11, or these rods may be made in the form of a truss 12 with inclined members 13, which may be further reinforced by bars 14 parallel to bars 12, bars 14 engaging plates l5 placed above bars 8, and this may be further reinforced by wire mesh or screen 16 if ,deemed necessary, as when desired to support a partition wall 17. Barsl() may be downwardly bent or arched as at 18, and have an abutment 19 contacting with plates 8 and interlocked with said plates by hooks 20 where it is desired to exert an outward pressure against said plates, and said bars may be employed to support a wire screen or mesh 21 for reinforcement of the floors between said bars.

ucts orV cores 22 may be provided in the floors connecting as at 23 with a furnace or stove pipe, said cores being connected to certain of said first-mentioned cores 6 to circulate heat through said cores, and so warm said building through the walls thereof, or carry off smoke or other matter without the employment'of other form of chimney. Similar cores 24 with openings 25 may be provided for air circulation or to carry off dust or gases, and this circulation may be further improved by providing suite able openings 27 through the base-boards 26, said basefboards being preferably of metallic construction, and said openings 27 may be further provided with screens or draft regulating closures 28, if so desired.

his construction is primarily intended for application in houses of the poured concrete type, although not absolutely confined to this type ofl construction. It will be readily apparent that the construction is characterized'by great Simplicity and economy, of both space Vand materials, and is extremely rigid and durable, as well as being b'oth fire-proof and sanitary throughout.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. In a concrete building construction having verticalwalls and horizontal floors, said walls and floors thereof being of unitary poured construction, a plurality of vertical cores or ducts within said walls, a plurality #PATENT oFFicEf sov as desired,

floors, said horizontal cores preferably reg.-

istering with said vertioal eores,' a plurality of horizontal cores or ducts inter-connecting said vertical cores, and means for reinforcing said Walls and floors, adjacent said cores, substantially as described.

2. In a concrete building construction having Walls and floors of poured concrete,` said Walls and floors being suitably reinforced and inter-connected by steelreinforcelnents, vertical cores or ducts Within said Walls, said cores being` inter-connected by a plurality of horizontal cores, horizontal cores within said fioors, saidhorizontal oores preferably intercommunicating with said vertical cores, a portion of said duets or cores being open at one extremity to communicate With the air Without said Walls, substantially as and for the purpose subscribed.

In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' JAMES HUNDLEY.

Witnesses z f Jessie M. HUNDLEY, ETHEL MCDANIELS. 

